On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 12:17:54PM +0530, Vijay Chauhan wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Linux Device Driver and reading LDD3. > > It mentions that the disadvantage of dynamic major number allocation > is that you can’t create the device nodes in > advance, because the major number assigned to your module will vary. That's extremely out of date, all distros now use udev (or mdev) and as such, dynamic major/minor are fine to use, and recommended. > To solve this problem, it says that create a script to invoke insmod > and after calling insmod, reads /proc/devices in order to create the > special file(s). Not needed anymore, udev handles this for you. Hope this helps, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
